Under the manipulation of the Taiwan authorities' "de-Sinicization," Taiwanese writers and media people have recently complained one after another that the children on the island do not even know who Yue Fei and Sun Yat-sen are.
Taiwanese students did not know that Professor Sun Yat-sen, Taiwanese Professor: The consequence of "de-Sinicization" is "de-historicization"
Recently, a writer in Taiwan opened a free tutor class and found that students did not know who Sun Yat-sen was, thinking that Taiwan was ruled by the Dutch before it was occupied by Japan, and then the Stone Age.
At the same time, a well-known media person in Taiwan posted a post entitled "The DPP's policy of ignoring the people in history will be ridiculed by history," introducing Yue Fei's "fine loyalty to the country" was originally a catchy story for most people. "Whether the quality of students has really improved up to the present is debatable, but it is an indisputable fact that the 'broken chain' of history has been caused."
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According to reports, the textbooks of Taiwan's junior high schools only introduce Yue Fei in one sentence and Sun Yat-sen in one paragraph. The description of Yue Fei is that the Southern Song Dynasty was threatened by the Jin Dynasty, and fortunately Yue Fei and other famous generals defeated the Jin soldiers many times to avoid the fall of the country. Sun Yat-sen's description is put in a paragraph, saying that he was the revolutionary leader of the late Qing Dynasty, and simply mentioning that he created the Xingzhong Association and the League Association.
A university professor in Taiwan analyzed 5 editions of Taiwan's history textbooks in the past 60 years and found that the introduction to the Xinhai Revolution was repeatedly deleted, from more than 6,000 words in the 1964 unified edition to just over 300 words left in the 2020 Hanlin edition, "shorter than a news bulletin"...
Pictured from Taiwanese media
According to reports, the history that students on the island of Taiwan are now exposed to is first of all the history of Taiwan, and a book is all about the local history of Taiwan, including the Dutch and Spanish colonial periods. For some historical expressions, the phrase used is that the Qing Dynasty "occupied" Taiwan, not the Qing Dynasty recovered Taiwan; Japan "governed" Taiwan, not Japan colonized Taiwan.
Under the atmosphere of "de-Sinicization" in which the Taiwan authorities are obsessed, Wu Kuncai, a professor at Chiayi University in Taiwan, pointed out that students have little understanding of the Xinhai Revolution, let alone have any respect or identification with this period of history. In addition to Sun Yat-sen, important figures such as Huang Xing and Lu Haodong are completely missing in the textbooks, and the academic principles of people, events, times, and places in history have completely lost their effect and become a history textbook with "no face.".
Wu Kuncai said bluntly that in order to "de-Sinicize," the DPP deleted the most important sense of timing and context in history education, and as a result, young people in Taiwan have become "illiterate in history" and may not be able to save them for one or two generations.
"What is the purpose of separating the history of Taiwan from the history of China and then diluting the history of China?" Taiwanese professor You Zixiang believes that the Taiwan authorities are simply letting Taiwan's next generation collectively lose memory of China's long history, and then instilling in them the history of "Taiwan independence" and even beautifying Japan's colonial rule.
Source: Central Committee of the Communist Youth League